The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-19
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SENTENCE from the lately published letters
of Lady Mary wortley Montague: Il own I
enjoy vast delights in the follies of mankind,
and God be praised, that is an inexhaustible
! source of enjoyment"
| THERE is magnificent formation of rock salt
near the town of San Quentin, Cal, fourteen
miles long by three or four wide and from 100
! to 1875 feet in depth, forming an inexhaustble
supply which can be used to good advantage by
ships unloading at the port for ballast for the
return trip.
THE Aldermen of Newark. N. j., are unhappy.
They supplied themselves with gorgeous gold
badges, at the expense of the city treasury, as
they supposed, but the Mayor refused to APP
prove the bill, and the Corporation Counsel says
the Aldermen nlust Ply for their decorations
themselves.
WHEN Ephraim Ellsworth Post. G. A. r. was
organized the other evening in Troy, Capt Eph-
rain D. Ellsworth, u retired United States off
Ger, 10 years old, and the father of Col. Els
WORTH was present, and was evidently deeply
moved by the exercises. There is another Els
worth post in New York.
GEORGE CARROLL, a coal miner at the .Jelco,
Tenn, mines, was robbed of SIS and called upon
a fortune,teller for assistance in recovering it.
From the description given by her, he was led
to suspect Lewis Patton, whom he attacked, and
in the melee that followed received mortal
wound at the hands of the suspected party.
THE Tucson (Ari.) Citizen says: quite lot
of rings was found in the robbers cave in the
Rincon mountains, but evidently they had not
been taken on the last haul made by the free
hooters. 1t is true that among the goods taken
was an invoice of rings for a San Diego jeweler,
but they were billed as 1+carat gold, whereas
the rings found were 1S-carat fine. There are
| about four dozen of them
THE result of the recruiting for the regular
army in England for the first six months of the
present year has been far below the average of
the last few years. During this period only
15.16 recruits have been obtained, as compared
with 1885 in the same period of last year,
2054 in the same period of 1885. and II ,0S8 in
the same period of 1884. Since January there
has been a continuous decline in the numbers
enlisted
AT THE end of the year 1886 the railways of
Canada extended over II ,523 miles Rails were
laid over that length, but some portions had not
yet been operated so that only l0, 697 miles were
| actually under traffic. At the same time 751
miles were under construction the greater pOr-
ton of which has since been completed, so that
at the present moment locomotives are actually
running over more than IL 900 miles of railway
in Canada.
In Hungary there lives man who is over 1870
years of age He enjoys good health and, what
is more, still retains full possession of mis-
mental faculties. Franz Mayo was born in 1850.
The profuse hair and full beard of the old man
| are yellowish white. He has few of his lower
| teeth left. Long ago he lost the use of his left
eye, and has lately begun to suffer pain in his
right one. He trips along lightly and speaks in
measured tones, He only takes one meal a day,
and is very temperate.
IT is about as difficult for dog to get really
satisfactory scratch at his back as it is for
one-armed man to rub his elbow, but Hartford
| Conn., dog does it. In front of his masters
house is an old stone hitching post, which time
| and weather have made rough and scaly Pro-
to thn
self backward till he is leaning against the post,
and then proceeds to rub his back as cleverly as
longshoreman or one of the ancient Scots who
used to bless the Duke of Argyll.
OUT of the 260,OOO tons of steel and iron manu-
featured annually at the Krupp works the
| greater portion is required for peaceful pur-
poses, especially for railway plant and material
| From report published in 1881 il appears that
| the number OF worRnen employed in the cast
| steel works amounts to II. 2l1, and those en-
| ployed in mines and FORCES to S,394, being a
| total of sos. To these we may reckon the
families of the employees, numbering As. 176 thus
showing that 90 3s1 persons were at that time
| dependent on the Krupp establishment for their
| livelihood.
| Upon the belfry of the Kauthaus, in Cobentz,
there is the head of giant, bearded and he'll
meted with brass. The giants head is known
| as The Man in the Custom House," and when
ever countryman meets a citizen of Cobentz
| away from that place, instead of saying How
| are all our friends in CoblentZ?'' he asks How
is the man in the custom housey" At every
| stroke of the bell which sounds the hours upon
| the clock the mouth of the giant opens and
| shuts with great force, as if it were trying to
| say in the words of Longfellow: Time was
| Time is-Time is past"
CHARACTERISTIC illustration of the panic
caused by the cholera in Sicily is furnished by
list published in the official journal, by order
| of the Italian Minister of the Interior which
| contains the names of all the physicians and
| apothecaries who have fed for fear of the
| epidemic, and all of whom will be called to ac-
count by the courts. The list embraces 1S
| physicians and 10 apothecaries of Catania
| physicians and apothecaries of .Aderno, 3
| physicians, 2 surgeons and apothecares of
| Palermo, apothcarics of Biancavilla, and
surgeon each of Maletto and Francofonte
THE millonaires of Colorado are preparing to
| bid for the seat of Senator Bowen in the United
States Senate. His term expires in March, 1885,
and the Colorado Legislature to be elected this
| foil will choose his successor. Bowen is a can
didate for reelection, and has as competitors,
| Edward Wolcott, Attorney for the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad: eX- Governor Rotlett Will.
| lam A Hammill the mining millionaire; ex-
| Congressman Chilcott, Ex-Governor Samuel FL
| bert, Judge Haett, of the United States Court;
| Ex-Governor Evans and Congressman Symes
| The auction promises to be an interesting one.
THE barramanda proves to be a connecting
link of primary rank between the oldest surviv-
|
| animals, like the frogs and salamanders II
| leaves its native streams at night and sets out
on foraging expedition after vegetable food in
| the neighboring woodlands. 1t has both lungs
and gillS. 1t can breathe either air or water at
will, or, If it chooses, the two together. Though
covered with scales and most fish-like in outline
it presents points of anatomical resemblance
both to salamanders and lizards, and is con
Meeting bond between the North American mud
fish on the one baud and the wonderful lepido-
siren on the other.
DR.. PARRAcHIA has made curious study of
the differences between criminals and law-abid-
ing citizens as exhibited by their walk He not
only has shown how we may distinguish crimi-
nails in general, but has laid the beginning of the
| differential diagnosis between various evil-do-
ers. He found that in criminals in general lob
tanned from the study of forty crminals) the
left pace was longer than the right the lateral de
Walton of the right foot greater than that Of
the left. and the angle formed by the axis of the
foot with the straight line was greater on the left
| side than on the right 1t would thus seem that
in general, the gait of a criminal betrays a
marked preponderance of power of the left foot
| over the rght-a true snstrality. This also
agrees with the discovery of Mario that
criminals are left-handed.
AlNovEL STEAMER for removing bars and shoaI
spots in rivers and harbors is being put together
| at Neaic & Levy's shipyard, in PHILADELPHIA.